Top Personal Injury Settlements of 2025
The largest personal injury settlements from 2025, nationwide for one client or family, ranked by amount. Each links to the full story, the firm, and the record behind the number.
- $50 millionSettlement
$50 Million Settlement After Durable Medical Equipment Supplier Ignored Pleas to Replace Dying Man's Breathing Device
Simon Law secured a $50 million wrongful death settlement after a young man with intellectual disabilities died when a national durable medical equipment supplier repeatedly ignored his mother's calls for a replacement breathing device.
- $24 millionSettlement
$24 Million Wrongful Death Settlement Sets Virginia Record After Nurse Killed by Commercial Truck
A $24 million settlement obtained for the family of a 33-year-old nurse killed when a commercial truck crossed the center line at highway speed is the largest reported wrongful death recovery in Virginia history, doubling the previous record.
Allen Allen Allen & Allen2025 · Virginia (mediated, settled at courthouse first day of trial)Read the full story → - $21.5 millionSettlement
$21.5 Million Settlement for Jogger Mauled by Dogs King County Failed to Remove
King County paid its largest personal injury settlement on record after a 38-year-old mother of two was mauled by two dogs the county had repeatedly been warned about but failed to remove.
- $17 millionSettlement
New Jersey Birth Injury Settlement Funded at $17 Million, Structured to Pay Out $26.95 Million to $37.15 Million
Daryl L. Zaslow of Eichen Crutchlow Zaslow settled a hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy birth injury case for $17,000,000, a portion of which purchased annuities that carry guaranteed payments of $18,502,301 and anticipated payments of $28,700,273. Judge James Den Uyl approved the terms on January 3, 2025.
After trial: A court-approved structured settlement, so there is no appeal. It was funded at $17 million; the annuities guarantee $18,502,301 and are anticipated to pay $28,700,273, putting the total value between roughly $27 million and $37 million.
- $12 millionSettlement
Grain Delivery Driver Electrocuted at Silo: $12 Million Settlement Against Power Company and Property Owner
A 23-year-old grain truck driver was killed when an electrical arc jumped from an overhead high-voltage power line to the portable auger he was using at a commercial silo, and his family recovered $12 million from the power company and property owner.
- $10 millionSettlement
Beverly Kinney Crosswalk Death: $10 Million Metro Settlement and Mandatory Driver Training
Cincinnati's Metro transit agency paid $10 million to the estate of Beverly Kinney, an 87-year-old struck and killed in a marked crosswalk by a bus driver with a suspended license, and agreed to overhaul its driver training.
- $9.5 millionSettlement
$9.5 Million Wrongful-Death Settlement After a Fleeing Driver Ran a Stop Sign
Ricci Law Firm and co-counsel recovered $9.5 million for the family of an 84-year-old woman killed when a driver fleeing police ran a stop sign, with the case built on the negligent entrustment of the car to a man whose license was suspended over repeat DWI charges.
- $7.5 millionSettlement
Painter struck by corporate van in illegal U-turn: $7.5 million after $10 million verdict
A Ventura County jury awarded $10 million after a corporate van driver executed an illegal U-turn into a painter's path, leaving him needing a cervical fusion four years later; the case settled for $7.5 million when the defense's life care planner admitted on cross-examination to using ChatGPT for her cost estimates.
Batta Fulkerson Law Group2025 · Ventura Superior Court (Case No. 56-2021-00551735-CU-PA-VTA)Read the full story → - $6.8 millionSettlementPaid
$6.8 Million Hospital Settlement After a Stillbirth at 31 Weeks and the Hysterectomy That Followed
Kristen Dondero was 31 weeks pregnant and under the care of a maternal-fetal specialist when Hackensack University Medical Center sent her home on September 6, 2018 with decreased fetal movement and early labor symptoms. She returned two days later and learned her son had died in utero; the delivery that followed tore her uterus and ended in an emergency hysterectomy, blood transfusions, and further surgery under an induced coma. After five years of litigation marked by the hospital's sworn denials that any internal review of her care existed, and an Appellate Division ruling that those denials could support a fraudulent concealment claim, HMH Hospitals Corp. agreed on July 1, 2025 to pay Kristen and Andrew Dondero $6.8 million. The case against the obstetrician and his practice continued.
After trial: The $6.8 million is the hospital's share only; the claims against Dr. Abdelhak and his practice were still pending as of July 2025 and we found no reported resolution.
Lomurro Munson LLC2025 · Superior Court of New Jersey, Law Division, Bergen CountyRead the full story → - $6 millionSettlement
$6 Million Settlement After Child Killed by Stray Bullet at Griffin Apartment Complex With Fabricated Security
An 11-year-old girl was shot and killed by a stray bullet while sleeping in her Griffin, Georgia apartment; her family's legal team overcame an assault-and-battery insurance exclusion by proving the complex had misrepresented its security features, recovering the full $6 million policy limit.
- $4.5 millionSettlementPaid
The Flatbed Was Hauling 37,000 Pounds Against a 26,000-Pound Limit, Underlit, Crawling Uphill at 21 mph in the Dark. A 14-Year-Old Died Behind It.
A 14-year-old high school freshman was riding home from a soccer match with her father on Interstate 79 when their vehicle struck the rear of a flatbed semi hauling lumber uphill at 21 mph in the dark. The plaintiffs' case was that the truck should never have been on that road: overloaded by more than 11,000 pounds, inadequately lit, and driven by a man not properly licensed for it.
After trial: Settled and court-approved; final. The $4,500,000 is split $3,000,000 from Quality Woods, Inc. and $1,500,000 from Allegheny Wood Products, Inc.
- $4 millionSettlement
Henson Fuerst Settles Nursing Home Pressure Ulcer Death for $4 Million
A 73-year-old man admitted to a North Carolina nursing home for ankle-fracture rehabilitation developed untreated Stage 4 pressure ulcers within 27 days and died, and Henson Fuerst resolved the wrongful-death claim for $4 million.
- $3.5 millionSettlement
Understaffed Nursing Home Pays $3.5 Million After a Lone Aide Rolled a Two-Person-Care Resident Out of Bed and Broke Her Femur
A 69-year-old North Carolina nursing home resident who needed two staff members for all care suffered a broken femur when an understaffed facility sent one aide to move her alone, and her claim settled for $3.5 million in June 2025.
- $2.7 millionSettlement
$2.7 Million Settlement for Brooklyn Child Poisoned by Lead Paint in NYCHA Apartments
After eight years of litigation, the firm defeated NYCHA's summary judgment motion and secured a $2.7 million structured settlement for a child whose blood lead level reached nearly ten times the CDC reference level.
- $2 millionSettlement
$2 Million Settlement for a Child Whose Foot Was Crushed by a Dump Truck at a North Carolina Truck Stop
Law Offices of James Scott Farrin attorney Preston Lesley secured a $2 million settlement for an 8-year-old whose left foot was degloved and partially amputated after a dump truck ran over it at a North Carolina truck stop.
- $2 millionSettlement
Dead Tree Limb Falls on Private Property: $2 Million Premises Settlement
A falling dead limb left a person with a concussion and a shoulder injury on private property, and Marks & Harrison settled the premises-liability claim for $2 million after mediation ended an eight-day trial before it began.
- $1.5 millionSettlement
OBGYNs Missed Thiamine Need in Severe Morning Sickness, Leaving 21-Year-Old With Permanent Brain Damage
A 21-year-old first-time mother developed Wernicke's encephalopathy and permanent cognitive deficits after her OBGYNs failed to give her thiamine during two months of severe hyperemesis gravidarum, resulting in a $1.5 million settlement in January 2025.
- $1 millionSettlement
Radiologist Missed Palpable Breast Mass at Naval Hospital, Leaving Patient With Terminal Cancer Diagnosis
A 55-year-old woman whose breast cancer went undetected for nearly a year after military radiologists misread her imaging recovered $1 million in a federal settlement against Naval Medical Center Portsmouth.
Emroch & Kilduff2025 · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Virginia (Norfolk Division)Read the full story → - $1 millionSettlement
$1 Million Settlement for Missouri Driver Who Developed Atrial Fibrillation and Needed a Pacemaker After a Hit-and-Run Crash
Justin Meier sustained cardiac and neurological injuries including atrial fibrillation requiring pacemaker implantation after an unknown driver caused a multi-vehicle collision in December 2023; his employer's uninsured motorist policy settled for $1 million in July 2025.
- $1 millionSettlement
NMSU Pays $1 Million and Mandates Campus-Wide Training After Failing Rape Survivor
New Mexico State University agreed to pay $1 million and require annual consent and sexual assault training for every enrolled student after a lawsuit alleged the university failed to investigate or protect a freshman who was raped in her dorm room in September 2022.
All 2025 verdicts and settlements
137 results, largest first
A Clark County jury awarded $3.8 billion against Real Water on March 21, 2025, after finding the Las Vegas alkaline water company liable for poisoning consumers with hydrazine-contaminated product that caused acute liver failure, autoimmune disease, and death.
Aaron Podhurst served on the Plaintiffs' Steering Committee in the 13-year antitrust class action against the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, which ended in a $2.8 billion settlement for more than 3.3 million healthcare providers.
A federal jury in Columbus, Georgia awarded $30.5 million in compensatory damages and $2.5 billion in punitive damages against Ford Motor Company for the deaths of Herman and Debra Mills, killed when the roof of their 2015 F-250 Super Duty crushed down on them in a rollover. Butler Prather LLP tried the case, with James E. Butler Jr., Ramsey Prather, Daniel Philyaw, and Allison Bailey on the trial team. The honest frame: Ford called the verdict impermissibly extreme, moved for a new trial, and in September 2025 settled this case and the related $1.7 billion Hill case on confidential terms, so the verdict was never collected as awarded.
A Cobb County, Georgia jury found that Monsanto's Roundup caused John Barnes's non-Hodgkin lymphoma and awarded him $2.065 billion, with Arnold & Itkin's Kyle Findley serving as lead trial lawyer.
Anapol Weiss shareholder Kristen Gibbons Feden helped secure $1.6 billion in default verdicts for 104 women sexually abused as children by former Long Island pediatrician Stuart Copperman, one of the largest cumulative civil awards against a single individual in U.S. history.
On October 6, 2025, a Los Angeles County jury ordered Johnson & Johnson to pay $966 million to the family of Mae K. Moore, a mother of three who died of mesothelioma in December 2021 at age 88 after decades of using the company's talc-based Baby Powder and Shower to Shower. The award comprised $16 million in compensatory damages and $950 million in punitive damages, reported at the time as the largest talc-mesothelioma verdict ever returned against Johnson & Johnson. The honest frame: on March 13, 2026, the trial judge, Ruth Ann Kwan, vacated the entire $950 million punitive award, finding the malice showing insufficient, while leaving the $16 million compensatory judgment intact. Both sides have said they will appeal. Dean Omar Branham Shirley tried the case for the Moore family, and this page documents it as part of the public record.
A Bexar County jury awarded roughly $831 million to Blas Mendez Jr., a longtime Seguin ISD special education behavior specialist left partially paralyzed after his motorcycle hit wreckage left in the road by an 18-year-old drunk driver who had been served at Koozies Icehouse & Grill in New Braunfels. Todd A. Hunter of Hunter Trial Law tried the dram shop case with E. Chevo Pastrano and Ginna G. Pastrano of The Pastrano Law Firm. The honest frame: the award was reported as the largest verdict ever returned by a San Antonio jury, and the bar had already closed by the time it came in, so the family is not expected to collect most, if any, of it.
After proving through 12.5 million internal company documents that Bristol-Myers Squibb and Sanofi hid for twelve years that Plavix was ineffective in patients with a common genetic variant, the State of Hawaii secured a $700 million settlement in 2025, the largest pharmaceutical recovery in the state's history.
A Harris County jury awarded $640 million to the family of David Lester Loree II, a journeyman pipefitter fatally crushed when a top-heavy HVAC unit being lifted by TNT Crane and Rigging overturned in high winds at a Texas A&M University-San Antonio construction site in September 2021.
A Miami federal jury found Tesla 33% liable for a 2019 Key Largo crash that killed a 22-year-old woman and severely injured her boyfriend, awarding $243 million including $200 million in punitive damages in the first federal trial over a fatal Autopilot accident.
Representing more clergy abuse survivors in the Archdiocese of New Orleans bankruptcy than any other firm, Herman, Katz, Gisleson and Cain helped push a five-year Chapter 11 proceeding to a $230 million settlement confirmed in December 2025, with additional recovery against Travelers Insurance still pending.
A Philadelphia jury found the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania liable for the brain injury a newborn suffered when staff delayed a cesarean section, a $182.7 million verdict that grew to a molded judgment of about $207.6 million, the largest medical malpractice award in Pennsylvania history. Kline & Specter argued and won the appeal, where the Pennsylvania Superior Court affirmed the full $207.6 million judgment in July 2025.
A New York County jury awarded $117 million to William Durbec and his wife Victoria in May 2025, the largest single-plaintiff asbestos verdict in New York State history, after Durbec developed pleural mesothelioma from asbestos-containing fireproofing he breathed during years of sheet metal work at the original World Trade Center.
A Garfield County jury returned a $205 million verdict against Glenwood Caverns Adventure Park and ride manufacturer Soaring Eagle after finding that operators launched the Haunted Mine Drop with a six-year-old girl sitting on top of an unsecured seatbelt, overriding a warning alarm that should have stopped the ride.
On September 16, 2025, a Los Angeles Superior Court jury found Joseph Ruffalo, an 85-year-old former music manager and 1980s film producer, liable for sexual battery and intentional infliction of emotional distress against his former stepdaughter, A.Z., who testified that he abused her from 1991, when she was six, until 2007, when she was 22. The unanimous jury deliberated two hours and forty minutes and awarded $85 million in compensatory damages and $30 million in punitive damages. A.Z. had reported the abuse to police in the United States and Britain without result; Ruffalo was never charged. Her mother was a co-defendant and resolved the claims against her before trial. Ruffalo told the jury he could not pay.
A Clark County jury awarded Timothy Kuhn $114 million after USAA spent years stonewalling his claim from a 2018 rear-end collision it had originally conceded was not his fault.
A Travis County jury found a Wings 'N More restaurant liable for overserving a drunk driver who crashed into a family's car, awarding $112.9 million after a six-year-old girl suffered a traumatic brain injury, cardiac arrest, and the loss of vision in one eye.
On February 16, 2016 Daniel Ryals dropped his healthy 9-month-old son at Wendy Jo Strother's unlicensed in-home daycare in Mena, Arkansas. That afternoon Strother's daughter carried the baby into the local hospital with multiple skull fractures and bleeding in his brain. He is permanently blind and brain-damaged. Strother pleaded no contest to permitting child abuse and got probation. In November 2025 a Polk County jury awarded the family $110,000,000 plus $40,000 in punitive damages.
On February 16, 2016 Daniel Ryals dropped his healthy 9-month-old son at Wendy Jo Strother's unlicensed in-home daycare in Mena, Arkansas. That afternoon Strother's daughter carried the baby into the local hospital with multiple skull fractures and bleeding in his brain. He is permanently blind and brain-damaged. Strother pleaded no contest to permitting child abuse and got probation. In November 2025 a Polk County jury awarded the family $110,000,000 plus $40,000 in punitive damages.
A four-day trial ended with a $109.2 million verdict against LaFarge North America after Simon Law proved the supplier knowingly sold Gleeson Asphalt base rock that did not meet the grade it was labeled and paid for.
A Cook County jury found the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority negligent for a 2016 construction zone crash on I-90 that killed one limousine passenger and left Rob Rosá paralyzed from the neck down, awarding Rosá and his spouse just over $104 million on October 9, 2025.
A Miami-Dade jury awarded $100 million to former Florida state senator Daphne Campbell for the death of her son Jason, shot while sleeping at the Monte Carlo Condominium after an intruder walked in through failed security. Morgan & Morgan attorneys Thomas Hasty, Grant Gillenwater, Chuck Fernandez, and Patrick Chucri tried the negligent security case with co-counsel from Ver Ploeg & Marino.
A King County jury awarded $100 million to four plaintiffs who suffered neurological, hormonal, and cancer-related illnesses after years of exposure to PCBs from defective fluorescent light fixtures at a Monroe, Washington school.
After winning a $26.6 million jury verdict for a union mason who fell through defective scaffolding on the Longfellow Bridge, Andrew Abraham of Keches Law Group returned to court and proved that Liberty Mutual's insurers willfully refused to investigate or settle a clear liability case, prompting a judge to double the compensatory judgment to over $91 million under Chapter 93A and 176D.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.